Community First (COFI) is an indigenous NGO registered under the Uganda National Bureau for NGOs. It was founded in 2017 by a development practitioner, Mr. Bruno Naho & Mrs. Judith Manano, a social worker. COFI exists to serve marginalized and vulnerable communities in Uganda. Our current target community of engagement is the Somali Urban refugee community living within Kampala. Our engagements with the communities are primarily operational and advocacy, designed to aid a holistic transformation of vulnerable communities into thriving and self-sufficient groups socially, economically, and psycho-socially. Our involvement with the community is research-based, informing the design and implementation of various programs in collaboration with the communities.
VISION
MISSION
Transformed communities, empowered to support themselves and improve their lives
COFI exists to engage communities to establish their own needs and empower them to improve their lives
Objectives
To establish the crucial needs of vulnerable & marginalized communities.
To empower communities to improve the livelihoods of their members.
To advocate for these communities and link them to crucial services they lack.
To help integrate the community members as active contributors to the larger societies they live in.
Our Core Values
TRANSPARENCY
We seek to be transparent and accountable in all
aspects to our partners, donors, and the
members of the communities with whom we
engage.
LOVE
We are devoted to
loving our neighbor,
which for us includes
all peoples.
SERVICE
We aim to serve with excellence, respect and
humility, seeing ourselves as servants to those
with whom we engage.
HUMILITY
We purpose to exemplify humility; by being
teachable, willing to learn and grow from others
and seeing ourselves as equals with all humans.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
We aim to not only provide services for people
but engage them in the same so that they are not
only recipients rather co-contributors to their
solutions
INTERGRITY
We endeavor to be people of integrity, to build
trust, and to have a compelling conduct and
demeanor among the people we serve.
HUMAN DIGNITY
We firmly believe that every human being
equally deserves and commands dignity and
is to be treated accordingly
EMPOWERMENT
In striving for independence & interdependence,
all our efforts should lead to people
empowerment to negate a state of perpetual
dependency
TEAMWORK
We commit ourselves to working in teams, & to
partnering with those who share our goals. We
value the strength and creative synergy that
mutual interdependence brings to any task.
Meet Our Team
Philip Onen
Executive Director
Phoebe Atuheire
Administrator
Tinze Rose
Counselling and Wellbeing Coordinator
Derrick Akampa
Skilling and Livelihood Coordinator